The developers behind Cambridge Station Square's huge makeover made an audacious bid for £150,000 of money towards a new park nearby.

Brookgate, the company behind the major CB1 development around Station Square in Cambridge, approached Cambridge City Council for £150,000 to improve a public park in the area.

A report submitted to councillors said that the the number of people using Station Square had been underestimated when the revamp was being planned.

A city council report said: “CB1 Mill Park improvements: Brookgate seeks ‘informal open space’ S106 contributions from the CB1 development to improve the park at CB1 for the benefit of all users (local residents, office workers, students, mothers and babies, joggers and those people passing through the neighbourhood). This would help to address new, additional demands on the open space and other impacts (eg, anti-social behaviour) which have arisen."

The report also said allocating the funding would “help to mitigate additional impacts of development not previously envisaged – not least the considerable extent to which a wide range of people (not just residents) make use of the site throughout the day.

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During the committee, Cambridge resident Sam Davies, questioned whether it would be right to allocate Section 106 funds to Brookgate which, she said, had made more than £9.6million in profit in the year to October 31, 2016.